The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-12-29
The Inter-O Ocean says that nothing now

The Inter-O Ocean says that nothing now
remains to complete the transfer of the
Chicago Times property and the West
Snowdon syndicate will assume control
of the paper on January 4th. Most radi-
changes will be effected. So far as the
public it is concerned is change Of price
from to 3 cents. The form of the paper
will also be changed, it is said.
Reports to the naval department from
the New York and Norfolk navy yards
twhere preparations are making to bui:
the great 6,0OO-ton armored war ships are
highly satisfactory. At New York the
keel blocks for the armored cruiser have
been placed and the ship is being layed
down. Advertisements for supplying the
new plant have already bsen issu ed and
proposals will be opened on the 10Th OF
next month.
Inquiries are being received in the City
of Mexico by cable from the United
States regarding the proposed new law
placing heavy tax on expectation of ores.
The matter has not yet been decided. but
it is believed the measure will become
law Recently a powerful English COM
pany bought and took possession of the
San Felipe reduction works near Chihua-
hua. The company is working hard to
secure the adoption of the measure.
Over 1000 men employed by the Phila-
delph1a & Reading railroad company on
their lines running from West Falls to
the Port of Richmond coal wharves.
either as train men, coal handlers or
freight handlers, quit work at half past
o'clock last Friday afternoon. This ac-
| ton was caused by the introduction of a
train crew of five non-union men to do
work upon which union men had been
employed, but who had been dircharged.
The movement will be communicated to
all the employees of the road
| The Pacific Mail Steamship has order
! ed the captains of all its steamers in the
China service to carry no more Chinese
| female passengers to California. unless
they can furnish positive proof of their
right to land under the provisions OF the
restriction act. The company has taken
! this step owing to the recent difficulties
in landing passengers of this kind. and
| the fact that the company was obliged a
| few days ago to take over fifty women
back to China who had been remanded
by the federal courts.
Rev. Canon o. Mahoney, in a speech
recently delivered in Cork, charged cer-
| tain local government officials with sys-
tematically corrupting girls of tender
age. The Freeman's Journal indorses
and amplifes the charges and demands
that the guilty parties be arrested. The
Pail Mall Gazette says it has information
that only one man, a tried and trusted
agent Of Dublin castle, is implicated in
the matter. -Four girls were his victims
and they are now inmates of the convent
of the Good Shepherd in Cork.
'he Pioneer Press recently sent print
ed inquiries to members of the present
congress asking their views on the qnes-
ton of the division of Dakota and it's ad-
mission, either as two states or one, and
it published replies from seventy-six
members of the house of representatives
from twenty-six state and in
luding fifty-eight republicans and
eighteen democrats, which indicate a
strong probability of the passage of
an enabling act admitting the
territory as a state after the next presi-
dental campaign. if such action shall be
acquiesced in by the people of tho terri
tory.
A special from Topeka, Kan, says the
dispatches which have been and continue
to be sent out by special correspondents
giving narrowing tales of suffering and
death in Kansas and Nebraska
are false, as is shown by the best evi-
dence that can be procured. There have
actually been two deaths in Kansas and
two in Nebraska, and these have been re-
ported to make scare. The crops in
Western Kansas have been poor and a
great majority of the settlers have been
there but a short time and are poor, but
they are not in a starving condition by
any means. The weather is moderating
the thermometer ranging from 40 to GO
degrees above zero.